Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Situated or occurring farthest within: the innermost chamber.
- adj. Most intimate: one's innermost feelings.
- n. The part situated farthest in.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furthest inward; most remote from the outward part.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being deepest within the self
- adj. situated or occurring farthest within
Etymologies
- From inner + most (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The G3C consisted of six layers of nylon (the innermost was a rubberized bladder).”
“The innermost was a dead rock with no atmosphere, while the next was a dead rock with far too much atmosphere.”
“The question concerns the very large — space, galaxies, etc. — but also the very small, namely the innermost structure of matter.”
“Beside the inward and the outward man, I do not indeed perceive that the apostle makes another inward of the inward man, that is, the innermost of the whole man.”
“The innermost was the bedchamber, from which projected a little oratory with an oriel window; the outer, the”
“I mean, there’s a reason they are called innermost thoughts.”
Dan Pasternack: As Easy As Falling Off A Blog (An Introduction)
“You don't seriously think that I have 'innermost' (and hence unspoken) intentions.”
“I met with two incredible scientists who work there, senior physicist Michael Barnett who is the head of the Particle Data Group, from Lawrence Berkley National Labs, and Neal Hartman, who engineered the innermost part of ATLAS, the pixel detector.”
The Huffington Post: Seth Curcio: Super Symmetry: Painting the Particle Accelerator
“For Z Zcr, if the innermost orbital is not filled, the electric field of the nucleus will pull an electron out of the vacuum, resulting in the spontaneous emission of a positron.”
“We see abstraction everywhere and hear how it allows our minds to expand and wander freely to connect with our own innermost thoughts.”
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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the most
or more correctly the -ost
starost, geognost, needscost, alecost, anagnost, compost, harmost, endmost, outmost, almost, innermost, hithermost and 15 more...
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I've Run a Fowles.
Words from The Magus
magus, bougainvillea, innermost, numen, imbricate, bilges, sandal-wood, incorporeal, fleshpot, desipience, batrachian, caique and 82 more...
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